My advice for a partner on how to manage expectations and emotions

This is not the first time that cancer affected my family. Thirty years ago my brother was diagnosed with a different kind of cancer as a small child. A nurse pulled my parents aside and said, “You’re going to get a lot of advice. People are going to tell you a lot of things. They’re going to tell you that it’s not that bad, or they’re going to try to scare you to death.